Excerpt from Belgravia, Vol. 22: A London Magazine; February, 1874 You've made a great mistake in life, Cuthbert, ' said the old man, during the one brief hour in which he was able to talk ration ally with his son. You might have made this a splendid practice, if you had worked with me for the last seven years as it is, the business has fallen ofl'. I've been getting old; didn't like to have a stranger about me, so wouldn't take a partner. Filby and Jack son have undermined me in the place, Cuthbert; the practice isn*t what it was when you were a boy at school, by three hundred a year. But I leave you a comfortable little bit of money, in spite of everything. It's your mother's doing - there never was such a woman to save money.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.